"Fire the arrow!" an officer from Tianjin Guard shouted.
More than 200 archers rushed out from the rout. They started firing arrows at the slowly approaching Japanese pirates.
These two hundred archers were the elites of Tianjin Guard Commander Chu Lanqing. He spent most of his resources on one hundred cavalry servants and three hundred archers. Unfortunately, today's street fighting resulted in the loss of one hundred archers.
The archers roughly determined the distance, immediately raised their bows at a 45-degree angle, and began to fire arrows. The queue was quite orderly, which showed that they usually trained a lot. At this time, the officers basically relied on their servants and technical units to fight. Ordinary
Soldiers are just a group of people.
The archers fired arrows one after another until all thirty wolf fang arrows in the quiver were shot. Then they quickly retreated. By this time, their arms were too tired to lift up and their physical strength was basically exhausted.
The rate of fire of bows and arrows is much faster than that of matchlocks.
A qualified archer can easily shoot sixteen arrows in one minute. A pot of arrows can be shot in two minutes.
Overall, the combat skills of ancient infantry have been on a downward trend since the Tang Dynasty.
In the Tang Dynasty, an infantryman was equipped with three horses, one for riding, one for carrying armor and weapons, and one for carrying food and supplies.
When fighting on foot, each soldier is equipped with long weapons such as spears or horseshoes, fighting weapons such as horizontal knives, and short weapons such as daggers. Throwing weapons such as hand axes and small javelins. Armor-breaking weapons such as bones, maces, and iron weapons.
Whip, mace, etc.
Everyone in the Tang army had a compound bow. When approaching the battle, they would first shoot out all thirty arrows, causing great damage to the enemy. Then they would line up and charge with spears. After the attack dispersed the enemy, they would kill them with a horizontal sword.
By the Song Dynasty, soldiers were no longer all-rounders. Basic spearmen knew how to use guns and nothing else.
In the Ming Dynasty, soldiers no longer knew how to use a single weapon. They were basically recruited and trained on a temporary basis.
The guards basically don't know anything, they just send them a weapon and drive them into battle.
A dense rain of arrows fell from the sky, Sakurai Momo was a little nervous, and she subconsciously held on to the corners of her clothes.
Hugh! Hugh!
Withered feather arrows flew down from high altitude and fell densely into the military formation.
Suddenly, there was a jingling sound.
The steel armor provided by Yang Fan showed superior performance at this time, and the iron arrows bounced directly on the stomach of the armor.
After putting down the visor, there are only two holes for the eyes. However, these holes are too small and cannot be injected at all. If the injection is inserted, you can only consider yourself unlucky. This is completely a matter of character. The manufacturer Yang Fan is
Will not be responsible.
The Ming Dynasty's arrows were much more powerful than the Japanese bamboo bows. Even though there was no bow armor, they still hurt from the impact. This was even with the leather armor lining.
But soon, the believers discovered that no one was injured. Although these arrows were much more powerful than Japanese bows and arrows, their own armor seemed even more powerful.
A wild cheer erupted from the crowd.
Fan Lin looked at the other person who just paused and then continued to move forward, and suddenly panicked. The armor of these people was also very good. It was better than the mountain armor he wore, and he was a little red-eyed.
"Three-eyed gun, go up and fire." Fan Lin knew this was not the time to hesitate and quickly continued the order.
This time it was the turn of his servants. Two hundred servants rushed to the place with three-eyed guns more than ten meters away from the Japanese pirates, and lit the three-eyed guns.
The three-eyed blunderbuss equipped by these servants is relatively regular. After all, they are the soldiers of the Tianjin Commandery Department. Their three-eyed blunderbuss also has a long haired head between the three blunderbuss tubes, which can stab the enemy in an emergency. The long handle is connected
, it can be swung and used as a heavy weapon to hit enemies who have penetrated armor.
Although it carries a two-pronged fork, it can be used as a shooting stand and can also assassinate enemies.
There is also a round shield with a hole in the center from which the three-eyed gun can be extended. This can protect the gunman when shooting. When the shield is not in use, it can be carried on the back to protect the back.
The effective range of Yang Fan's fire door gun is nine meters in direct range, and the maximum killing distance is thirty meters. The maximum killing range of this three-eyed gun is less than twenty meters, and it basically does not follow a straight line. After it is fired, no one can predict it.
What will be hit?
If it weren't for the dense military formation of the enemy, the effect would be simply tearful.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A burst of smoke filled the air, and the three-eyed gun fired one after another.
The three-eyed gun is also a fire gate gun, it just increases the firepower density by connecting them in parallel.
This weapon is far different from Yang Fan's nine-knot repeating gun.
This time the three guards finally achieved results. No matter how bad the musket was when fired at this distance, the armor could not completely protect it. The main reason why Jiannu could block it was that they were thirty meters away, and they had superb bow and arrow skills to shoot at each other. In addition,
, is their cloth-covered armor, which is made of real-time cotton-iron composite armor.
The bullets of the three-point gun are lead bullets, which are relatively soft. When shot on 1.5 mm thick steel armor, it is difficult to penetrate unless steel ball bullets are used.
At this time, the believers lacked enough cotton armor behind their armor to absorb the kinetic energy. Although it failed to penetrate, the armor was deformed and caused severe blunt injuries, resulting in many fractures.
Sakurai Momo watched as a piece of cake fell in front of her.
"Don't stop, charge forward, they don't have time to reload." Akita Shun shouted loudly, he was the battalion commander of the temporarily formed forward battalion.
The Japanese showed good obedience. They ignored their fallen companions and rushed up running.
These elite servants were not cowards, and they immediately charged forward with their three-eyed guns.
Yang Fan understood that armor had no advantage against heavy weapons.
However, he still underestimated the combat effectiveness of these ronin recruited by Sakurai Momo. These people were all samurai and had trained hard since childhood. In addition, they had been trained on the battlefields of the Warring States period for more than ten or twenty years. They were all
Very qualified fighter.
Moreover, there are many of them.
Fan Lin hurriedly ordered: "Blow the drums and the whole army will attack."
"Kill the head of a Japanese pirate and you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver."
The guards here were also driven by the servants, and they all rushed forward in a swarm. The temptation of ten taels of silver was not small, but the soldiers were already numb after being deceived. Not many people believed that they would be able to cash it in the end.
Yang Fan looked at the fighting scene in front and sighed. The formations on both sides were completely chaotic. They were basically fighting on their own. If his soldiers fought like this, he would be furious. The officer leading the team would be on the spot.
It has to be cut.
Sakurai Momo sat on the chariot and stretched her neck to look at the situation ahead. All the elders also stood on tiptoes to look at the battle ahead.
This is their first battle. This is the first time the team has been on the battlefield. Everyone is very nervous.
The battle line has been completely lost in the front, and the two flights are mixed together, causing a huge chaos.
The guard station has many people, the religious order is well-equipped, and the warriors have strong combat effectiveness, but the temporarily recruited soldiers are far behind.
After the melee began, the situation soon began to turn one-sided.
Long weapons were inconvenient to use in hand-to-hand combat. Guard soldiers stepped on the barrels of their guns to adapt to the battlefield.
However, they soon discovered that the opponent's armor was extremely strong and that Party B could not penetrate it at all. After all, it was difficult to find seams in the armor during combat.
After being hacked to death a group of officers in succession, these mobs completely lost their fighting spirit. With a shout, they suddenly abandoned their enemies and ran away.
These people are all locals and are familiar with the terrain. They throw away their unnecessary things and go straight to the green gauze tents and reed swamps.
Yang Fan looked amused. These people were not good at fighting but very good at running away. In the blink of an eye, most of them were missing.
When Fan Lin and others saw that they had completely collapsed, they immediately turned on their horses and fled towards Hejian Mansion.
They are not stupid. They are still on the border of Tianjin when they go to Hejian Mansion, so they are not running away. They are still continuing to resist.